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Pekin Marigold Festival
Mineral Springs Park, Pekin, IL
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Pekin has called itself the Marigold Capital of the World since the 1970s, after Senator Everett Dirksen's unsuccessful campaign to make the marigold the national flower. Mineral Springs Park hosts the resulting festival each September, with a parade, carnival, and juried Art in the Park show. The Pekin Area Chamber of Commerce has run it for more than fifty years.
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